Prosecution Insights
Prosecution Insights
Technology area: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 2 patents granted in the last 365 days
Ulta Salon, Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. is active in the Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems technology area with 1 pending office action. This action is being handled by 1 distinct examiner, showing a focused prosecution profile. The involvement of 1 distinct art unit indicates that the company's current patent activities are not spread across different technical divisions of the patent office. This concentration suggests a highly specific set of filings within this particular technological domain.
The busiest examiner for the company is OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF, who holds the 1 busiest examiner pending action. This figure represents the total volume of pending actions for the portfolio, meaning no other examiners are currently active. Practitioners should note that the prosecution strategy is simplified by this single point of contact. The entire active workload is consolidated under one examiner in one art unit, making their specific examination history the primary factor in the portfolio's current progress.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 only | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 1 | 16.2% | +14.1% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17891468 | Methods and Systems for Enabling Electronic Access to Electronic Content Offerings Over a Network | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 14d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17891468 | Methods and Systems for Enabling Electronic Access to Electronic Content Offerings Over a Network | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 14d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3622 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17891468 | Methods and Systems for Enabling Electronic Access to Electronic Content Offerings Over a Network | OSMAN BILAL AHMED, AFAF | 3622 | §101 | Final Rejection | 14d | Pending | Aug 19, 2022 |
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